Sovereign Health Advantages: Impacting the health benefits offering for Tribal Groups and their business entities

Description: Sovereign Health Advantages: Impacting the health benefits offering for Tribal Groups and their business entities. On this episode of Impact Healthcare, Lester sits down with Cameron Cummins, Managing Partner at Transparent by Design. Together, the pair discuss his experience working primarily with tribal entities and discusses how he’s able to impact their second largest expense – healthcare. They also look at a few key provisions that allow Cameron to lead tribal nations towards financial savings while delivering better health outcomes for their community. Show Notes: Welcome to Impact Healthcare! Lester stars off by introducing Cameron and asking what led him towards healthcare insurance (1:15). The two dive deeper into the intricacies of servicing tribal nations and casinos (4:55) and how self-funded plans also help non-tribal employees as well (15:26). Cameron discusses the Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund and other provisions for tribal entities (17:12). He also discusses how easy it is for employers to implement a self-funded plan and achieve cost savings (36:25).